Notes: |
1. |
The Division Public Relations Section, The Sixth
Infantry Division in World War II 1939-1945 (The Battery Press 1947) at
p. 48. |
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2. |
The total loss of life at Buna and Biak was considerably
higher for the 41st and 32nd Divisions. The 32nd and 41st Divisions had
been in New Guinea a full year longer than the 6th Division and their sacrifices,
along with those of the Australians stand as a testament to their bravery
and service during the hard-fought and little known campaigns in New Guinea.
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3. |
Eric Bergerud, Touched With Fire (Penguin
Books 1996)("The most remarkable behavior show by Japanese soldiers was
their willingness to accept orders that meant certain death and their refusal
to surrender. Loyalty to the feudal lord and an unquestioning willingness
to die pursuing duty were deep and genuine parts of the traditional samurai
ethic.") at p. 130. |
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4. |
From Interview with Robert E. Price (1998), Medic
63rd Infantry Regiment, 6th Division. |
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5. |
From interviews with Robert E. Price. |
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6. |
Nathan Prefer, MacArthur's New Guinea Campaign,
March - August 1944 (Combined Books 1995) at p. 86. |
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7. |
Nathan Prefer, MacArthur's New Guinea Campaign,
March - August 1944 (Combined Books 1995) at p. 98. |
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8. |
Col. Arthur L. Kelly, Battlefire! Combat Stories
From World War II (University of Kentucky Press 1997) Chapter 7. |
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9. |
Bruce A. Hanesalo, Tunnel Warfare Vol. 4,
Asian Tunnel Warfare (MILITARY/INFO Product, May 1996) at 23. |
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10. |
Kelly, Battlefire!, at 124. |
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11. |
Kelly, Battlefire!, at 124. |
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12. |
Kelly, Battlefire!, at 124. |
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13. |
Kelly, Battlefire!, at 125. |
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14. |
Kelly, Battlefire!, at 128-29. |
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15. |
Kelly, Battlefire!, at 129. |
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16. |
John L. Munschuer, World War II Cavalcade
(1996) at p. 79 [this description is also verified by Robert E. Price, medic
with the 63rd infantry who worked at the Mobile Hospital to treat the wounded
and examine the dead]. |
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17. |
The Division Public Relations Section, The
6th Infantry Division in World War II 1939-1945 (Battery Press 1947)
at p. 48). |
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18. |
The Sightseer, Vol XXIV, April-June 1965
No 4. (National Association of the Sixth Infantry Division) at p. 7. |
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19. |
Id., at 100 (48 medium tanks, 4 light
tanks, 4 armored cars, 2tracked prime movers, 41 trucks, 4 105 mm howitzers
and 16 47 mm AT guns were destroyed); also Michael Green, MacArthur in the
Pacific (Motorbooks Int. 1996) at 117-119). |
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20. |
The 6th Division, supra, at 95. |
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21. |
Hampton Sides, Ghost Soldiers (Doubleday
Press 2001). |
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22. |
Kelly, Battlefire!, at 134. |
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23. |
See Attached Map from the Cockatoo Newspaper,
1945 activities just after Cracking the Shimbu Line. |
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24. |
Id., at 144-145. |
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25. |
Bergerud, Touched With Fire, at p. 130-32
("The measures taken to fight the war were so extreme, and ran so deeply
against human decency, that modern nations have never remotely duplicated
them"). |
Sources & links: |
Taped interviews with Robert E. Price in 1998 and 1999 |
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The Division Public Relations Section, The 6th Infantry
Division in World War II, 1939 to 1945, (Battery Press1947) |
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Jennifer S. John, The Sixth Infantry Division,
(Turner Publishing 1989) |
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John L. Munschauer, World War II Cavalcade, An Offer I
Couldn't Refuse, (Sunflower University Press 1996)
(Mr. Munschauer was a Lieutenant in K Company of the 63rd Infantry Regiment
and served in Luzon) |
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Albert E. Cowdrey, Fighting for Life, American Military
Medicine in World War II (The Free Press, 1994) |
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Michael Green, MacArthur in the Pacific, (Motorbooks,
1996) |
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Nathan Prefer, MacArthur's New Guinea Campaign March -
August 1944, (Combined Books 1995) |
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Eric Bergerud, Touched With Fire, The Land War in
the South Pacific (Penguin Books 1996) |
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